Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:21:31 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Mike Reeh <michaelr@ss454.dyn.ml.org>, Geoff Ludwiczak <ludwicza@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot time Message-ID: <19980809132131.A13891@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980809104841.2062A-100000@ss454.dyn.ml.org>; from "Mike Reeh" on Sun Aug 9 10:52:03 GMT 1998 References: <19980809173836.AAA14205@ha1.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com@cr649276-a.surrey1.bc.wave.home.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980809104841.2062A-100000@ss454.dyn.ml.org>
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In the last episode (Aug 09), Mike Reeh said: > On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > > I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.7, and I love the Operating System, > > but it's a pain starting it up. It takes quite a while to probe my > > hard drives and cdrom. Is there any way to fix this by maybe > > rebuilding the kernel possibly??? > > I have that problem too.. only has done it w/ 2.2.5+ (didnt do it in > 2.2.1) but if i dont have a slave device connected to my primary ide > controller, it takes what seems like minutes (probably about 1 > minute) to probe the secondary controller.. kind of weird but i just > live with it.. Edit /sys/i386/isa/wd.c, around line 105; change TIMEOUT from 10000 to around 3000 - 4000, then recompile your kernel. That'll cut the probe time by 1/3. Some IDE devices may need more than 3 secs to respond, though, so adjust accordingly. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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